Review of The Women's West.

Authors

Suzanne L. Bunkers, Mankato State University

Date of this Version

1988

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 1988. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

The twenty-one essays in this collection represent some of the finest work being done in the ongoing re-examination of the American West through women's eyes. Based on papers presented at the first Women's West conference in 1983, these articles analyze faulty assumptions and omissions in earlier histories of the West; they examine the ways in which gender roles shaped western women's lives; and they formulate new methodologies for the analysis of women's private writings as vital historical records.